Wheaton (Minnesota)
Traverse County
27-69844
Wheaton is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Traverse County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Wheaton had 1424 inhabitants.
Geography
Wheaton is located in western Minnesota on Must Inca River, a tributary of Lake Traverse and therefore part of the basin of the Red River of the North. The geographical coordinates are 45 ° 48'17 Wheaton " north latitude and 96 ° 29'46 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 4.66 km ².
Towns nearby Wheaton are Norcross (27,3 km east-northeast ), Dumont (11,9 km to the southeast ), Rosholt, South Dakota ( 23.9 kilometers north-west ) and White Rock in South Dakota at the interface of the States South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota ( 18.1 km NNW ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (129 km north), Duluth Lake Superior ( 415 km east-northeast ), Minneapolis (297 km east-southeast ), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul ( 315 km in the same direction) and Sioux Falls, South Dakota (280 km south).
Traffic
In the city of Wheaton of U.S. Highway 75 and State Route 27 crossing the Minnesota All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The Wheaton Municipal Airport is located 4.9 kilometers south-west a small airfield. The nearest major airports are the Hector Regional Airport in Fargo (139 km north ), the Sioux Falls Regional Airport (274 km south) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 317 km east-southeast ).
History
Wheaton was founded in 1884 within the Lake Valley Township. In 1887 the site was removed from the Township and incorporated as a Village of Wheaton. 1886, the administrative seat of the County of Browns Valley was moved to Wheaton. Wheaton was named after Daniel Thompson Wheaton, a surveyor of the railway.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Wheaton 1424 people in 655 households. The population density was 305.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 655 households lived statistically 2.08 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.4 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 0.2 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 48.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 31.5 percent were 65 years or older. 52.8 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 42,950. The per capita income was $ 26,383. 8.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.